Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting 2021-07-11 - call for agenda items

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Mon, 05 Jul 2021, Aaron Bauman wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 11:42:36PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> The point is that banning an EAPI doesn't have any noticeable effect.
>> For example, if you look at EAPI 0 (banned on 2016-01-10) and EAPI 4
>> (banned on 2018-04-08), there's neither a cusp nor any change of slope
>> visible for the curves plotted here:
>> https://www.akhuettel.de/~huettel/plots/eapi.php

> We have had the issue in the past. Taking 1 minute to vote on a ban of
> an EAPI in a council meeting is a minute task and enforces the goals
> of the project.

But we don't actually enforce the ban. Doing so would mean adding the
EAPI to eapis-banned in layout.conf, which in turn would imply that
commits of (new or existing) ebuilds with a banned EAPI would be
rejected.

Ulrich